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South China Morning Post
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Indonesian private island popular with Singaporeans offers idyllic setting for artists
When strolling through a beach resort, it is not often that you pass a sculptor chiselling driftwood or catch sight of a textile artist steeping fabric in a vat of dye. But such scenes are a daily occurrence on Nikoi Island in Indonesia. The private island resort about 50 miles (80km) away from Singapore in the Riau Archipelago not only welcomes tourists but also hosts Southeast Asian artists through its year-round Ubah Rumah Residency programme. 'There is an element of surprise when guests see someone who doesn't look like staff at work in the rumah [studio home],' says Ernest Goh, a Singaporean artist and co-artistic director of the programme. 'A lot of people stop in their tracks to watch.' A boat sculpture on Nikoi Island inspired by Southeast Asia's indigenous Orang Laut seafaring communities. Photo: Ubah Rumah Residency A popular weekend destination for Singapore residents, Nikoi is the epitome of barefoot luxury. The 15-hectare (37-acre) island, with its white sand and turquoise waters, has just 18 villas strung along its shoreline.
BBC News
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Exhibition made of eight million stitches visits Truro Cathedral
Twelve embroidered panels that took three years to stitch are making their way to Truro Cathedral in panels, measuring 8ft (2.4m) by up to 13ft (4m) each, are made of eight million stitches. The exhibition is set to open at the cathedral on Tuesday until 20 August. The Threads though Creation event will take members of the public through the creation story "day" by "day". It begins with elemental designs and takes the public into the Garden of panels were designed by Devon based textile artist Jacqui exhibition will be open to the public during the cathedral's opening through Creation makes up one third of a larger exhibition called Threads through the Bible, which premiered in Liverpool in January and is set to tour England through 2025 and 2026. Threads through the Bible is made up of Threads through Creation, Threads through the Cross and Threads through Revelation.
